I'd like to have one (or both) of these builders to put together a fretted and fretless neo-'Roscoe Beck 5' with active preamp and active/passive switch. Two volume controls, three band tone controls, and a three-way (parallel, single-coil, series) switch for each dual coil pickup. Possibly an RMC piezo on one or both with its own volume control.

well, thanks to the basses i already have, I can barely afford *any* more at this point. The Modulus will have to go byebye to help offset the cost of the Stambaugh I'm ordering, but not until it arrives in several months.

I can't afford any of them, but my favorite right now (probably because I've played it most recently) is a fretless 5 string Warwick Corvette. That was a lot of fun to play. Next runner up is a fretted version of that same bass.